The street was coated an inch deep with dry golden dust and the little children ran about half-naked, sneezed often, sweated, and were fretful. The mill had closed down at noon. People in the houses along the main street sat resting on their steps and the women had palmetto fans. At ...
Holidaythe first to go, in 1959, and Betty Carter the last, in 1998 – Lincoln steadfastly maintained her dignified, almost solemn, focus; her tart, deftly timed Holiday-like inflections, and her commitment to songs that dug deeper into life's meanings than the usual lost-love exhalations....
still a little like working-women, and not yet entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall in woman. One of the four...
Saturday that weekend dave came over for awhile..then shannon picked us up and we went to the movies..haha i screamed during the previews.we saw Boogyman..it sucked.but anyways everyone in our theater was fighting with each other.it was awesome.someone sneezed and all you hear is "god ...
The black man sneezed and the white man said god bless you. The white man looked up, finally, and said, “Why don’t you tell yours first?” *** I was born in 1932 near Chicago. My father was a sanitation worker employed by the city of Chicago and we came, in my thirteenth ...
If they did not seemto discover me, I presently sneezed to attract their attention,or moved to a position where they could not help seeing me.And as soon as I knew they saw me I gaped and stretched, and gave othersigns of being mightily bored with traveling. I kept my hat off all ...